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Throughout my life this group of songs by Black American artists has offered a tonic for the soul in uncertain times. Most emerged from my sister's tape recordings of @desreereynolds show on a Sheffield pirate radio station in the 90s. Listen to un-remastered versions if possible

In a damning indictment of the Home Office, the report’s author, stated that the fiasco, which saw people with a right to live in the UK wrongfully detained or deported to the Caribbean, was “foreseeable and avoidable”.
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Thankful for the renewed interest in Afropean, but a little unsettled by a new economy opening up in the wake of the death of George Floyd. Reading my book can’t bring him back. I can only offer a page of it to my fellow black writers, that is helping me navigate this moment.

"... a tweet from Sascha Bajin, formerly Serena Williams’s longtime hitting partner who then coached Osaka as she rose to No 1 in the world rankings, went viral after he stated that 'colour isn’t an issue' in Europe."